invented by tHe Late Reverenci Bi{hopo?Chefier Dr.WH' 
^ins, which in all the accompUfhments of Language doth 
excel any one yet extant j to which is alio annexed a real 
Charader, Legible into that or any other Lariguage Spok- 
en. By which Language the Character and every additio- 
?aal Mark is efFable, and yet the Charafler is not Litteral 
but Real, which is more curious and ufeful than tlie C'nnefe 
way. Great pitty it is that Difcourfe is not pubhflhed in La- 
tine, that the hc^mtd of Europe^ may think of further Im- 
proveing it^ and bringing it to Ufe. 
But whatever we may judge of Language, tis paft diP- 
pute that Writing was ever Artificial, how Antiently fo e- 
ver it were in Ufe, and was the Invention of fbme thinking 
and Stvdious Men. Tis alfo evident that there have been 
various ways thotightggf|^aM|^^ Significancy, ac- 
cording to the rQVQT^i^emroithl renms that were the In- 
ventors. As may be gheffed by the jEgyftian Hierogly- 
phicks, the Chine fe Charafters, the Mexican Chronology, 
and the Li:ieral Cbarafters of feveral Nations^ each of which 
ieern to proceed upon differing methods, and from dilTering 
thoughts of Invention. , 
Which of thefe ways is the moft Antient, is fiard to 
Prove. The MgjpianlMumrnys and Ohleisks prove a great 
Antiquity of the Hieroglyphicks, but yet the Chine fe Chro- 
nology ( if to be credited ) outftrips the JEgyfttAn in pretence 
to Antiquity .For the Chinefe m^ks. Foht the hrft King of CM 
to be the Inventer of their Character: And account him to 
have Lived 2950 Tears before the time of Chrifi^ dureing 
all which time they pretend to have a certaine and written 
account in their Books: But their account of the tinies pre- 
ceding, they efteem more Hypothetical and Fabulous ; de- 
pending cheiSy upon Fidion and Oral Tradition: As you 
will eafily beieive, when you underftand how many 
years they make it fince the Creation of the World to the 
prefentyear 1686. which by the account thereof in Mr. 
Graves his tranflation oiVlug. B^/^.will be found to be no lefs 
then eighty eight millions fix hundred and fourty thoufand 
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